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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (8296)	9/28/2001 4:09:30 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10077

Air travel and getting back to Business as usual..... Unfortunately, the security procedures at the airports are going to have a very significant impact on the willingness of people to fly. I flew twice this week. The first day was on Tuesday and the airport was nearly empty. My add-on delay was probably no more than 15 minutes. Today, the airport was moderately busy, but much less busy than it would have been three weeks ago. The line at the security checkpoint was at least 100 meters long and not moving fast. My add-on delay was a minimum of 1.25 hours. On my flight, there were at least 20 open seats (total on this B737 config is 137). Usually there would be 10 people on standby for this flight. My opinion is that, until they make the security checkpoint procedure more efficient, nobody (official) should be encouraging "business as usual" views toward air travel. It is a self correcting problem though, after waiting well over an hour in the security checkpoint line, I will re-think the necessity of flying next week. BTW: if they spent an hour looking at ways to eliminate inefficiencies in the process, I guarantee that they could reduce the time spent in line by at least 33%. I thought of at least 5 things that would reduce the time going through the checkpoint.